Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Some questions

Bill B opened this issue on Jan 13, 2005 ยท 4 posts


Bill B posted Thu, 13 January 2005 at 5:12 PM

Hey all, I have some specific needs and things I need to do in Photoshop I am hoping you all can help me with. I just got Photoshop CS. I have been using photo shop since V 3 but have for my normal use a probably only use about 40% of the tool set. So I am looking to accomplish the following. All of the following questions are related to images with people in them. I have played with quite a bit of Photoshops tools but just not getting what I need. I need to do these functions on the fly with lightning speed. 1. I need to be able to very quickly mask or select (hair, eyes, & teeth) I have been playing with the plug in Mask Pro 3. Is this the best and fastest plug in to use for good selecting? 2. After making the selections I then need to change the hair color (regardless of the original color) to light blond or silver grey. The hair MUST be natural and convincing as far as color. I must keep the highs and lows in the tones. What would be the best approach to doing this. And is there a plug in that would fit this bill. 3. I need to take any dark and light areas or colors in the image and get them to a average mid tone range. In other words I need the entire image to be in the same tonal range or value scale. If you think of the image as black and white and pick the most mid tone color what I need is to change the image to stay within a range of say 16 colors of black and white. So the darks are lighter and the lights are darker sort of thing. Any suggestion for plug ins or Photoshop commands would help so much. Thanks